"It looks like L'Vontaria didn't get that part of the spreadsheet done so... yeah if you could go back and finish the rest... yeah, all of that... The other parts, too. Just to double-check. She'll be in tomorrow I think. I'll call her to make sure."

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:24 PMAuthor: stephen biko

“The omnibus was a major success and a major victory because we built into the baseline more defense spending and more border wall funding without having to make any concessions on issues like DACA or otherwise,” Miller continues.

?

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:24 PMAuthor: Non sequitur

NASA IS BRINGING CRYOSLEEP CHAMBERS OUT OF FICTION AND INTO SCIENCE Contributed by

Elizabeth Rayne
@quothravenrayne
May 23, 2018
You probably thought it was infinitely cool when Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo first emerged from their cryosleep chambers in Alien, but now that slice of sci-fi could become a reality in our lifetime.

NASA and SpaceWorks Enterprises are currently developing a stasis chamber (as opposed to individual pods like those in the movie) that could induce an extended state of torpor, or metabolic inactivity medically brought on by lowering body temperature to the point of mild hypothermia, that could allow astronauts to snooze for at least two weeks on end during longer missions. Also unlike Alien, in which everyone is temporarily in freeze-frame until the ship arrives at its destination, the crew would rotate cryosleep shifts so there is always someone conscious in case something goes awry where no one can here you scream.

SpaceWorks’ objective is to “place crew and passengers in a prolonged hypothermic state during space-mission transit phases (outbound and Earth-return) to significantly reduce the system mass, power, habitable volume, and medical challenges associated with long-duration space exploration,” as explained on their website.

The sci-fi technology behind the chamber is based on the emerging medical practice of Therapeutic Hypothermia (TH). Astronauts’ body temperatures would gradually be lowered to 89.6 degrees Fahrenheit and sedate them so they wouldn’t realize they were being frozen to sleep. While artificial hypothermia that nearly sends your metabolic rate into suspended animation might sound dangerous, it actually counteracts potential injury to bodily tissues that could otherwise result from hypoxia. Such a chamber could also prevent the harmful side effects of microgravity exposure and keep killer space radiation out.

While in this hypothermic sleep, astronauts would receive Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) intravenously through a catheter, and additional catheters would be used for waste disposal. Leave that to the imagination. NASA also notes benefits that go beyond the chamber itself. Launch costs and consumables would be significantly reduced, which would give the space agency a greater budget to use towards safety enhancements such as radiation shielding and increased mass margins. When your crew is inert, you can eliminate the need for a galley, cooking and eating supplies, exercise equipment and entertainment normally needed to keep someone alive and relatively sane in space. Think entertainment is unnecessary anyway? Just imagine being en route to Mars for months without Netflix.

Future Mars missions could be much more efficient with the advancement of a technology once thought impossible. NASA has already been sending lander after lander to the Red Planet, but it’s the human factor that makes a manned mission that much more complicated.

“Anytime you introduce humans [to a mission], it’s an order of magnitude or two more challenging,” said former NASA chief technologist Dr. Bobby Braun.

Unfortunately, science will probably not have figured out how to induce a state of suspended animation by the 2030s, so the first crews to Mars may have to deal with day after day of seeing nothing but the star-flecked blackness of space. At least they will probably have wifi.

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:24 PMAuthor: spaceporn2525

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:24 PMAuthor: ,.,.,.,..,.,.,,.,.,.,.,.,.,.

GC has you Pissing on the Fly to reduce costs

https://worksthatwork.com/1/urinal-fly

"As early as 1976 Joel Kreiss, an inventor from New Jersey, registered a US patent for a bull’s-eye target to improve aim, noting that ‘parents, janitors, and others responsible for this cleanliness have often despaired [sic] the human male sloppiness of failing to direct urine into the proper receptacles’."

i think it's more for ppl who watch obscure movies from the 60's or whatever that are hard to find anywhere else.

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:22 PMAuthor: TURD SANDWICH()

It's still $10/month right? I pay for it because it's cheap. If they went higher I wouldn't bother. Everything they offer is online for free (obviously illegally), half their shit that I loved has been removed from their catalog, and their original content is ok. Never understood the appeal of shit like Stranger Things or Orange is the New Nigger. Those shows are just slightly above mediocre.

Low IQ schtick? If you paid higher wages to Americans to manufacture (via not outsourcing the labor) an iPhone costing $4,000, those Americans could then use those higher wages that earned here to buy the $4,000 iPhone.

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:20 PMAuthor: \'\'\'\"\'\'\'\"\'\'\'\'\"\"

? Didn't notice anything weird.

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:19 PMAuthor: TURD SANDWICH()

Fair enough but he specifically was talking about movienuts. Most movienuts like the best quality possible which right now is 4k.

If he just meant people who like to watch a shit ton of movies than I guess their DVD service is good for that too.

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:19 PMAuthor: michael doodikoff

streaming choices are ok to shitty on netflix. I can't do without the dvds, I watch some obscure artsy shit sometimes

Yea, SQ 25/26 is JFK-FRA-JFK, used to be an amazing value when you got a 15% online booking discount. Was less miles for SQ F to FRA than UA biz to Europe. There's pretty scant SQ F award avail on that route these days.

Seriously, like 95% of blacks vote Dem. Given the thoughtful premise-questioning and contrarian nature of high-IQ ppl, obviously the odds of the single best black dude being a reptile were always going to be higher than 5%, but they still had to be pretty fucking low, right?

It's just gotta be exasperating for libs. Imagine you're a smart, true-believer black lib like barack obama; you finally get around to reading "A Conflict of Visions" and then go and read "Between the World and Me" (the pamphlet written by that guy Ta-Nehisis Coates or whatever from the Atlantic who's been forcememed more strongly on the public than anyone since obama himself) right after, and you're just like "goddamnit, fuck." And you consider yourself a pretty honest, open guy, so it really fucking gets to you, having to steer around the obvious, inconvenient truth.

Or imagine being some hard-working media jew, burning the candle at both ends, working your butt off to destroy this country, and you want to go and *use* the infallibility that you've worked *decades* to imbue moderately intelligent blacks with by pointing to the best one, and having him spout off the shitlib ideological talking points that comprise your true religion (you're a "cultural jew"). And you go to point to the smartest, most articulate and persuasive one.... and it's a fucking rush-limbaugh-listening conservative!!! That uppity race traitor!

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:06 PMAuthor: far-right swedish democrat

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:06 PMAuthor: Get Thee to the TRUMPery

Yeah but they've slowed down the mailing process. Used to be you could get two discs a week. Now it's barely one.

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:05 PMAuthor: LetsGetOutofThisTown

56k? dude, i remember getting on bbs boards at 9.8k. I remember trying to view GIFs and seeing it render one line at a time.

bootlicking, PC message from miller on the omnibus where he conflates rebuilding existing BORDER FENCE with the FUCKING WALL, and emphasizes how great the omnibus is because it increases military spending.

Does air canada have the same 14 days out from departures restriction for LH F availability? I can’t wait til last minute.

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:02 PMAuthor: Sir Incelot

(Robby Mook on November 1st)

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:02 PMAuthor: Consuela

On the Omnibus Spending Bill

The moment Trump came closest to betraying his commitments with his supporters was his signing of the recent omnibus spending bill, which barred the president from using his preferred border wall prototypes to construct a wall, did not fully fund a border wall, and increased the Catch and Release program.

Miller’s reasoning on the omnibus spending bill is that it allowed Trump to somewhat fund a border wall — even if it is the same style fencing that Obama used at the border — and increase defense spending without having to give into a concession on amnesty for the illegal aliens enrolled and eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

“In addition to funding the border wall with no concessions, you are building into the budget baseline the end of the defense sequester and the rebuilding of the U.S. military,” Miller says. “Which we know from history, the best way to stay out of war and stay out of conflict is to have a posture of great strength at home.”

“The omnibus was a major success and a major victory because we built into the baseline more defense spending and more border wall funding without having to make any concessions on issues like DACA or otherwise,” Miller continues.

When asked if Trump will veto a future spending bill that does not fully fund a border wall, Miller simply replies, “The president’s words speak for themselves.”

Trump has pledged to his supporters not to sign a spending bill that resembles the omnibus.

Speaking as an expert on the subject, I think he could have found a more attractive 14-year-old to rape.

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:01 PMAuthor: Sir Incelot

“If they can spy on Trump, they can spy on anyone.”

“I dont trust these investigators”

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:01 PMAuthor: \"\'\'\'\"\'\'\'\"\"\'\'\'

You forgot "wears lifts".

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:01 PMAuthor: Thunder Collins

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:01 PMAuthor: cannon

The whole story is so fucking convoluted. Trump wins because he can boil it down to simple facts that everyone who doesn't have time to follow the whole thing can look at it and understand "Yeah that's pretty fucked up"

Never been to Mx at night time. There must be something but Idk and I'd imagine it's the typical spillover of outdoor day drinkers.
St J is the party spot in Malta. Your hotel is off the track a bit I think but nothing is far away

(expert for the defense giving an opinion based on XO hypo threads that someone would agree to be raped in public for 5 million)

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Date: May 24th, 2018 12:57 PMAuthor: michael doodikoff

also I'm guessing this lawyer's "verdicts and settlements" number is about to go up a bit on his firm bio
http://ssfjustice.com/about-us/l-chris-stewart/
L. Chris Stewart is a managing Partner ofStewart, Seay & Felton Trial Attorneys,a personal injury litigation law firm. Chris handles a variety of cases including motor vehicle collisions, wrongful death, civil rights, and shootings or sexual assaults. Some of his notable results include having won over $100 million dollars in settlements and verdicts in his career including a record $5.1 million negligent security settlement, the first $1.5 million jury verdict in rural Camden County, three record civil rights settlements, and Minnesota’s largest trampoline park injury settlement for $3 million dollars. Chris is also recognized worldwide for his civil rights cases including Walter Scott, a South Carolina man shot in the back on video by a police officer that settled for $6.5 million dollars, the highest in South Carolina history and led to a twenty-year prison sentence for the officer.

Yeah he was awful. A drunk always getting into trouble. Apparently he was sleeping with some mafioso's girlfriend. He was beaten up in some bar for it and somehow escaped. Someone from the crime family then told NBC that he was greenlit unless something was done to take care of it. NBC paid them off and also provided live coverage of the Columbus Day parade at their request.

Hope Cheston was 14 when, outside a friend’s birthday party in October 2012 in Jonesboro, Ga., an armed security guard at an apartment complex raped her on a picnic table.

For years, she thought she’d be forgotten like countless other sexual assault victims.

But on Tuesday, jurors in Clayton County, Ga., awarded her $1 billion in compensatory damages in a civil lawsuit against Crime Prevention Agency Inc., the security company that employed her rapist. Her lawyers believe it is, by far, the largest jury verdict ever awarded in the United States in a sexual assault case.

“My verdict basically shows if you stick with it and do what you need to do to get your justice, there’ll be a brighter end,” Ms. Cheston, now 20, said in an interview on Wednesday.

To be sure, Ms. Cheston — who gave The Times permission to use her name — almost certainly won’t end up a billionaire. The security company isn’t worth a billion dollars, and the amount of such a verdict could still be reduced by the judge.

But she and her lawyer both said the judgment offered a symbolic win for all sexual assault victims.

“A jury, from now on, will know there is no ceiling on the damages that rape causes to a woman,” her lawyer, L. Chris Stewart, said. “They literally thought a billion dollars was the value of a 14-year-old being raped in public.”

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The security guard who attacked her, Brandon Lamar Zachary, 28, began serving a 20-year prison sentence for statutory rape in 2016.

The civil lawsuit, filed by Ms. Cheston’s mother in 2015, accused the security company of negligence in their training and performance and of failing to keep a 14-year-old girl safe. A message for the chief executive of Crime Prevention Agency was not responded to on Wednesday.

The judge in the civil suit had already ruled the company was liable for negligence, and the jurors were brought in to determine the amount of the damages. They appeared to be touched by Ms. Cheston’s story; after the verdict was read, several of them came over to hug her, she said.

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Her therapist instructed her not to discuss the events of the day she was raped, she said. But she decided to speak publicly about her attack now because, while she’s not “over it,” she now feels she’s “in a comfortable spot,” and hopes her story can bring comfort or guidance to other survivors.

Ms. Cheston’s whole personality changed after the attack, she said. She was “very shut off,” losing friends and straining her relationship with her mother. She stayed inside more. She still distrusts authority figures, especially male ones, and wouldn’t feel comfortable going to the police in an emergency.

“Knowing that just one encounter can change your life forever is terrifying,” she said.

She’s now a sophomore at Fort Valley State University, majoring in social work, and volunteers helping the homeless during the summer, she said. She intends to continue working toward getting her degree.

The Times could not immediately confirm whether it was the largest verdict in United States history, but three lawyers who weren’t involved in the case said they believed it to be true. Most cases are settled for far less, said Brad Edwards, a lawyer in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who specializes in victims of sexual abuse.

When coming up with a number, jurors consider factors like physical damage and mental anguish — concepts that are difficult to quantify, he said.

“If rape cases got tried and jurors understood the crippling effect that those types of events have on victims, you would see hundred-million-dollar verdicts rather frequently,” he said.

While Ms. Cheston’s case could be celebrated as a victory for sexual assault victims, there remains an enormous amount of obstacles for survivors in obtaining justice.

IMO some of the best uses for AMEX are to transfer to Air Canada where you can get relatively cheap LH First awards to Europe, sweet spots in the Singapore award chart (like S.America to Southern Africa for example) and for ANA roundtrip intra-region flights. For example I booked a JNB-ACC-TMS-ACC-JNB-CPT J award with stops in Accra, Sao Tome and ending in Cape Town all in biz for only 50k miles.

Good amount of points, no idea what to do with them yet. Southwest is used in pretty liberal rotation to take the whole family somewhere (wife and I both have companion pass, which we use for two of the kids). One day I'll have to get my shit together on Flyertalk or something to figure out how to make good use of the AMX and Hilton points.

* Southwest: 337K
* Hilton: 1.8M
* AMX: 575K
* JetBlue: 342K

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Date: May 24th, 2018 12:52 PMAuthor: The URBAN MEYER 8-4 JUGGERNAUT

Col Chet and CryptoPig were 18000 posters, I hope they return one day as well.

and all trump had to do was scare the bejeezus out of an american ally with the threat of nuclear annihilation and crippling economic sanctions, forcing SK's potus to scramble to suck those same kimchee dicklets

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Date: May 24th, 2018 12:51 PMAuthor: I Guess I Could Have Stayed Home and Baked Cookies

You should watch the clip of Rickles, Sinatra and Carson together. Priceless.

my father taught at a community college when he was young. he had a student with cerebral palsy who would volunteer for every question, and apparently it would take the kid about 5 minutes to communicate his answers. but he couldn't just ignore calling on the kid, because it would be discrimination. seems like something that would be in curb your enthusiasm.

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Date: May 24th, 2018 12:47 PMAuthor: \"\"\"\"\'\'\'\'\'\'\"

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Date: May 24th, 2018 12:47 PMAuthor: LathamTouchedMe

Back then there were only about 4 channels. There were a lot more sophisticated and well-to-do people in that tv audience (especially for late-nite shows) so shows had to have something to reach that demo.

In general, TV back then was made for a much broader audience. Something as well-shot and written as the Sopranos and Mad Men could never be made on tv back then (way too risky) but you couldn't do something as low-brow as Jackass either.